[
UK
/fˈɛkləs/
]
[ US /ˈfɛkɫɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈfɛkɫɪs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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generally incompetent and ineffectual
inept handling of the account
feckless attempts to repair the plumbing - not fit to assume responsibility
How To Use feckless In A Sentence
- A tremor goes through me when I hear a sententious TV commentator raise the topic, because they always finish up by talking about the ‘anomaly’ that even the most feckless natural parent is allowed to breed.
- What a metaphor for the damage done by lard-rich, time-poor, environmentally feckless modern lifestyles. Times, Sunday Times
- She's unproductive and pointless, feckless and meaningless, she's a garbagy, no good, valueless trash deposit. Archive 2007-01-01
- Giving complete novices the responsibility for reviving a feckless football team would, in itself, be irresponsible.
- He was portrayed as a feckless drunk.
- I'm reminded of those advertisements for the national lottery depicting an airhead, a feckless character, with the warning that, if we don't play, the winner could end up being that same character.
- The strength of female characterisation is a joy - though not extended to the men, who appear merely as feckless one-dimensional sex objects.
- Neil Labute has a reckless, bordering on feckless, talent as a writer and provocateur, taking as much pleasure burrowing into messy sex lives as a toddler with a toy spade into a sandlot.
- He uses the word feckless in the snippet being played! Archive 2005-10-01
- The males stand about in feckless groups until picked by a girl, who takes a pebble and drops it wherever she requires her beaux to dig a burrow.